Ceiling bed



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' CEILING BED Filed Dec. 12, 1950 I s Sheets-Shet a INVENTOR Qo'ciar B. ZDJLZL ATTOR NEYS Patented July 21, 1953 UNITED STATES rArsNrf OFF-ICE 2,645,787 i I CEILING BED Victor Ray Will, Sacramento, cant. H Application December 12,195tsmaNoa469j 3 Claims.

This invention is directed to, and it is an object of the invention to provide, a novel disappearing or store-away type bed; the bed being mounted for swinging motion from a position of use on the floor of a room to a stored or outof-the-way position in a compartment immediately below the ceiling and opening through the adjacent part of one wall of said room.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel swinging mount for the bed; the mount being arranged so that there is no projection from the wall of the ceiling compartment when the bed is in its stored position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a mount for the bed, as in the preceding paragraph, which permits the bed to be shifted manually, and with only a minimum of effort, between its position of use on the floor, and its out-of-theway position in theceiling compartment. 7

Still another object of the invention is to provide a ceiling bed which is designed for ease and economy of manufacture.

An additional object of the invention is to provide a practical and reliable ceiling bed, and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects are accomplished by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusual of the following specification and claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an end elevation of the bed and its mount, with said bed as resting on the floor of a room, i. e. in position of use; the wall structure and ceiling compartment being shown in ,sec-

tion.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, but shows the bed, in full lines, as partly raised toward the compartment; in broken lines as tilted preparatory to insertion of the bed into the compartment; and in dotted lines as disposed in said compartment.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the bed and its mount; the latter being partly in section.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the mount for the bed comprises pairs of spaced, upstanding rigid frames I, each frame being disposed in a vertical pocket 2 in one wall 3 of a room; said pairs of frames being carried between a header piece 4 and a foot piece 5 in said wall. The space between the frames of each pair thereof is open into one room, indicated generally at 6, while said frames are backed by the wallboard 1 of the other room 8, i. e. the room on the opposite side of the wall 3.

The header, piece 4. is disposed some distance below the ceiling 9, and a horizontal compartment [0 is formed between such header piece and the ceiling; the compartment being of relatively shallow depth, but of a size in plan slightly greater than that ofa single bed or cot, indicated generally at H.

I The compartment [.0 includes a bottom l2, and a rear end'wall l3; such compartment projecting to some extent into the room 8 immediately adjacent the ceiling, and opening through the wall 3 into theroom 6 in symmetrical alinement above the. wall pockets 2.

A pair of swing rods l4 project into the corresponding wall pockets 2 between the corresponding pair of upstanding frames l therein;

such swing rods l4 being pivoted, at their inner ends, to cross'pin l5 which span between said frames intermediate the ends thereof and adjacent the back.

When the bed or cot, II is in use the swing rods 14 extendforwardly and downwardly out of the wall pockets 2 to adjacent the floor I6 in the room 6 outwardly. of the wall 3.

At their outer endsthe, swing rods M are connected to a vhorizontalcross bar i'l intermediate its ends, and rigid supporting arms 18 then upstand from the ,endsof the cross bar ll, with a slight forward and outward cant (see Fig. 1).

At their upper ends the rigid supporting arms l8 are pivoted at I!) to the upper ends of short end posts. 2|] aflixed centrally to the ends of the rigid mattress frame 2| of the bed or cot ll. Such bed or .cot ll includes corner legs 22 which are normally releasably locked in position, but which when released. are swingable about pivots 23 to'folded position, as in Fig. 2, extending horizontally inwardat corresponding ends of the mattress frame I, being held in such folded position by clips' 24. g b When itis desired to move the bed or cot II from its position of use, as in Fig. .1, to its stored or out-of-the-way position, as in Fig. 2, the legs 22 are first folded'and then the bed or cot is swung upwardly, which upward swinging is counterbalanced by a pair of tension springs 25 connectedbetween each swing rod l4 and points thereabove on corresponding frames i; such springs being disposed within the wall pockets 2.

When the bed or cot H reaches a position adjacent the open end of the horizontal compartment I0, such bed or cot is first tilted upwardly at its inner edge, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 2, and is then inserted in said open end of the compartment l0 and run into the latter, such motion being facilitated by rollers 25 which are 

